SF News Cheapest SF Micro-Condo Ever? Ready to throw down money for a place in San Francisco to (finally!) call home? Well, for mere pennies (i.e., $189,000) you can own this downtown micro-condo. This hypercozy 441 square
SF News Newsom's New "Unparalleled" Ashbury Heights Mansion? As already mentioned by SFist Chron favorite Leah Garchik, Mayor Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel plan to buy designer Candace Barnes' house. And according to On the Block, it's probably this house, circa
SF News Newsom Sells Bachelor Pad Sleep easy, San Francisco. Mayor Gavin Newsom has, at last, sold his Russian Hill bachelor pad. On the market for over a month, the spacious and too tastefully decorated penthouse condo, if you
SF News Steve Jobs Gets Green Light to Tear Down Historic Woodside Mansion The Jackling House, built by California architect George Washington Smith in 1926 for mining guru Daniel C. Jackling, will be taken off of life support. Yesterday, the Woodside City Council decided, after years
SF News Price of Newsom's Penthouse Condo Slashed A month after being on the market -- with an initial asking price of $3,200,000 -- Mayor Gavin Newsom's penthouse condo at 1101 Green Street #2001 has plummeted in price. According
misc Real Estate Protip: Confederate Flag Comforter Sells Home If you're not reading Curbed, you're missing out. On a lot. Take, for example, this Bernal Heights home (638 Banks St Unit 638-A) they came across, which is currently on the market. The
SF News Glen Park House Wins Some Sort of Award A Glen Park home recently received an award for being so stunning, as well as its own article in the Wall Street Journal. The American Institute of Architects Housing Award, which is handed
SF News US Rental Market Downfall is Your Gain According to a recent report, "[t]he vacancy rate for U.S. apartments hit a three-year high in the first quarter and asking rents dropped the most in at least 10 years." And
SF News Rent Prices Dropping? According to yesterday's article in the Examiner, rent prices are dropping. Plummeting by "$200 citywide," says one broker. Fantastic news, right? Not according to blog de revolución BeyondChron, who thinks prices are still
misc This Branch is Now a Home: Girl Seeks Vacant Tree by Lisa Hix Like many people, Cari Zinter is looking for a place, a nice flat in the East Bay except she would prefer that flat to be a platform in a tree.
SF News What's to Become of Mission Bay? Now that few can afford to buy, well, anything, what will happened to the promised Mission Bay/South Beach lifestyle? Much like Rincon Hill, We hear vacancies abound over there.
SF News Pointy Castro Restaurant to Become Mixed-Use Space That seldom-visited, pointy restaurant at the corner of Market, Sanchez, and 15th streets, Thai House, looks like it might become a "50-foot-tall mixed-use building with ground-floor commercial, 22 residential units, and underground parking.
misc Terrifying Noe Valley Shack on the Market Found over at It's Lovely! I'll Take It (via redfin), check out the sweet Noe Valley pad you can call your own for a cool $738,000. Mention you were raped and murdered
SF News One Rincon Hill's Second Tower Comes Crashing Down Looking at our monitor through a wall of tears, the following info is difficult for us to report. According to Curbed, it has been confirmed that "the second tower of the Rincon Hill
SF News Breaking News: SF Rents on the Rise Despite the fact that penetrating tower after penetrating tower continues to sprout up across SoMa, downtown, and Rincon Hill, San Francisco rent prices are still skyrocketing. According to SF Business Times, [a]sking
SF News Bay Meadow Rides Off Into the Sunset Home to Seabiscuit wins, San Mateo's Bay Meadows, held its final race on Sunday. Over 10,000 people showed up to the South Bay not-San Francisco Thoroughbred gambling hotspot to bid it adieu.
misc One Rincon Hill's Entrance Falls Flat One Rincon Hill - the tallest apartment building west of the Mississippi, or however its tag line goes - has been open and ready for business for some time now. It should come
misc Haight Neighbors Make Compelling Argument Despite Lack of Design Skills We live just up the street from Haight and Stanyan, and the other day someone dropped off a flyer about how Whole Foods is eager to transform the former Cala Foods (now a
misc San Francisco Inexplicably One of the Best Cities to Buy a Home, Says <i>Forbes</i> Barf. San Francisco makes yet another one those vile quality-of-life top-ten lists. This time, it seems, we come in at No. 8 as one of the Best Places to Buy a Home, at
SF News Vile Turk and Hyde Street-Level, One-Bedroom Apartment: $1,500 Wait, really? BeyondChron's Paul Hogarth has a depressing article up about the Tenderloin's newest and ugliest building, above, offering up their street-level one-bedroom apartment for a whopping $1,500/month. For that. At
SF News Sudden Vacancy At The Odeon, Reports The Examiner While most mainstream media outlets didn't cover last week's suicide, which happened on Powell Street's H&M/The Odeon building, an SFist commenter pointed out that the Examiner did. Their article on
SF News Evil Landlords Arrested for Tenant Abuse Software engineer Kip Macy, 33, and real estate agent Nicole Macy, 32, were arrested the other day for "waging a war of terror"on their tenants occupying their six-unit, three-story SOMA house. It
SF News Jazz at Pearl's Sings the Blues We see that Jazz at Pearl's--singer Kim Nalley's nightclub devoted to the dead sound of jazz, noted by both the Chron and the New York Times as one the best blues venues--is closing.
SF News BLŪ In Review The wait is over. Curbed has some gorgeous shots of the new apartment building recently erected on Folsom and Second Streets. Take, for example, the bathroom above in Penthouse Unit A at BLŪ,
SF News Well, They're Moving On Up: One Rincon Hill Opens for Business Every night from our janky turn-of-the-century Victorian apartment, inside our janky bedroom, from within the sheets of our janky bed we look out our window at the thin, glassy penis that is One
